Please critique my site about turtles!!!

Please critique!

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Thank you for your suggestions!

Hi Rughis,

I like the colors, pictures, forum icons. Nicely done! Congrats!

P.S Guests should have a way to remove the registration prompt from the middle of their screen. It is site-wide, and I see no way to close it (the orange small rectangle).

Thank you Marvin

About the registration prompt, it's done in this way by design, just with the idea to induce user to register
I don't know if it is too much invasive

If there is no way to add a "Close" button, could you at least change its location? The bottom right corner of the web browser would be a location I would recommend to consider.

Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac

If there is no way to add a "Close" button, could you at least change its location? The bottom right corner of the web browser would be a location I would recommend to consider.

You're right Marvin, thank you for your suggestion.
I would consider to locate it in the bottom right corner

Initially I didn't take in account that the position of the reg prompt depends on user's screen resolution :|

Other critiques?

Please, be severe!

Consider setting your H1 font-size larger. It could benefit your users if they could notice the titles of the pages in your forum sections and your threads. As it is now, your H1 font-size is so small that the titles do not stand out, as the font is no bigger than other text on the page. Some text is actually larger than your <H1>.

P.S. Scroll to the top of this page, and look at the size of the <h1>Please critique my site about turtles!!!</h1> title. That's an excellent example of how it should look like.

Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac

Consider setting your H1 font-size larger. It could benefit your users if they could notice the titles of the pages in your forum sections and your threads. As it is now, your H1 font-size is so small that the titles do not stand out, as the font is no bigger than other text on the page. Some text is actually larger than your <H1>.

P.S. Scroll to the top of this page, and look at the size of the <h1>Please critique my site about turtles!!!</h1> title. That's an excellent example of how it should look like.

Hi Marvin

Thank you again for your help

I'm trying to understand what I have to do to increase thread title font size, as you suggest me.
Do I have to modify a CSS template or I can change the font size in other way?

Edit: done, found the solution

VB4 RR's?

Nicely done, Fabrizio. It looks good, and your visitors will immediately see what each page is all about.

Thank you

Now I have to modify reg prompt position... some work with CSS

What do you think about the number of posts in a single thread page? I know that the best setting is 25 posts in each page. Now I have 10 posts, and I know that modify this setting could have impact on acquired indexing position.... my site is 1 years old and is growing.

What is the best choice that I can do in this situation?

Fabrizio, I don't have a strong opinion on this one, I wouldn't say a certain number is "the best".

I have thought about this on more than one occasion, and there are numerous things to consider, such as:

- when a higher number is selected, users don't have to click early to read the next page
- performance is better when fewer posts per page
- on-page SEO may be better when more posts are displayed, if the posts are on topic
- on-page SEO may be worse if members stray from the topic after the first few posts

Perhaps others will give you other pro / con reasons.

I keep mine to 15 posts per page.